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Author/Creator
Jacqueline Henriette Elise Messing
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1995.
The Status of Documentation for British Columbia Native Languages
Alternate Title
Yinka Dene Language Institute Technical Report ; no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
William J. Poser
Description
Contends that there is a need for further documentation of the native languages of British Columbia and that training to do documentation work should be a high priority.
A Study of Indigenous English Speakers in the Standard English Classroom
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Sterzuk
Description
Integrated Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2003.
Subjects and Objects in Assinboine Nakoda
Theses
Author/Creator
Shannon Louise West
Description
Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2003.
Summary of What We Heard: Challenges, Suggestions and Best Practices in Inuit Government Employment: Nunavummiut Perspectives from Nunavut Stakeholder Engagement Sessions
E-Books
Author/Creator
Employment and Social Development Canada
Surmounting Barriers to Understanding: Spiritual Elements and Worldviews of the Elders of Pukatawagan, Manitoba, with a Look at Teaching Application in the Community
Alternate Title
CIESC Annual Conference ; 2003
Comparative and International Education Society of Canada Annual Conference ; 2003
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Westfall
Description
Discusses nine religious or supernatural topics from Elders' perspectives.
Survey on Indigenous Teachers Manitoba Report 2017
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Teachers' Questionnaire Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Inclusion Directorate, [Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning]
Description
Survey asked questions about ancestry, cultural-linguistic identity, participation in professional learning activities, language fluency, knowledge of specific Indigenous subject areas, and comfort level in integrating Indigenous perspectives in the classroom.
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"Survivance" in Sami and First Nations Boarding School Narratives: Reading Novels by Kerttu Vuolab and Shirley Sterling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, June 1, 2003, pp. 697-726
Description
Asserts that colonial education has produced similar results in different parts of the world; includes history of establishing the residential schools in British Columbia.
Swampy & Moose Cree Flora & Fauna Glossary = Ka-Nihtâwikihk Nêsta Awêyâšîšak
E-Books
Author/Creator
C. Douglas Ellis
Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse
Alternate Title
Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakoda Narrative Discourse
Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakota Narrative Discourse
Theses
Author/Creator
Richard Watson Lungstrum
Description
Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1995.
Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity in Bella Coola, British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Kramer
Description
Arts and Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2003.
Talking Story with Vital Voices: Making Knowledge with Indigenous Language
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla
Alanaise Goodwill
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 3, December 2017, pp. 67-75
Description
Authors discuss their research practice using Indigenous Storywork principles.
Tan' Bawang (Homeland): Cultural Safety and the Kelabit Land Struggle in Borneo
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
Mutang Urud
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 3, Fostering Cultural Safety Across Contexts, September 2017, pp. 170-178
Description
Discusses intergenerational community mapping and language revitalization as a way for youth and elders to protect identity.
Te Kōrerotia o te reo Māori
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 2
Te Korerotia o te reo Maori
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Te Reo Hāpai: The Language of Enrichment: A Māori Language Glossary for Use in the Mental Health, Addiction and Disability Sectors
E-Books
Author/Creator
Keri Opai
Te Reo Māori me ōna Ratonga
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 7
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Te Reo Māori me te Hapori
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 4
Te Reo Maori me te Hapori
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Te Reo Māori me te Tuakiri Ā-Motu
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Te Reo Māori me te Wāhi Mahi
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 5
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Te Reo Māori me te Whānau
Alternate Title
Ngā Whakakitenga a Te Kura Roa: Whaihua ; Pūrongo 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rawinia Higgins
Poia Rewi
Vincent Olsen-Reeder
Description
Findings from project involving Maori language.
Teach Yukon Native Languages
E-Books
Author/Creator
Collyne Bunn
Doug Hitch
Jo-Anne Johnson
John Ritter
Gertie Tom ... [et al.]
Telecommunications Technology and Native American
Cultures
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Office of Technology Assessment
Congress of the United States
Description
Looks at possibilities for technology to help reestablish and strengthen cultures, and issues surrounding accurate and authentic representations.
Excerpted from Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges.
Telecommunications Technology and Native
Americans: Opportunities and Challenges
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of Technology Assessment
Congress of the United States
Description
Examines the ways in which technology may improve socioeconomic conditions, maintenance of cultures and the exercise of control in communities.
They Killed the Word
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 64-95
Description
Discusses how words are used to label and fit ideas neatly into boxes.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Think Indigenous [2017]: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Angie Caron
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2017]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Angie Caron
Description
Presenter discusses her Métis roots and her role as an educator.
Duration: 23:16.
Think Indigenous [2017]: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Kevin Lewis
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2017]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Lewis
Description
Presenter speaks about education and promotes immersion schools for language preservation.
Duration: 26:31.
Think Indigenous [2017]: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Simon Bird
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2017]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Simon Bird
Description
Speaker discusses the importance of educators building relationships with students and staff.
Duration: 28:02.
Tongue-Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
Theses
Author/Creator
Richard Brian Henne
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
Toward a Community-Based Transition to a Yup'ik First Language (Immersion) Program With ESL Component
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth A. Hartley
Pam Johnson
Bilingual Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3 & 4, Summer/Fall, 1995, pp. 571-585
Description
Comments on the restructuring of a school's language program.
Transference of Concepts From Ojibwe into English Contexts
Alternate Title
Transference of Concepts From Ojibwa into English Contexts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Isadore Bebamikawe Toulouse
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Advancing Aboriginal Language and Literacy, 2003, pp. 84-88
Description
Aboriginal language usage improves cultural knowledge. Students were previously punished if they were caught using Aboriginal languages in school.
The Transformative Power of Story for Healing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 59-65
Description
Discusses how storytellers can take a person through a wide range of emotions and the wisdom in the stories.
Treaty: Let's Get it Right!
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael Mansell
Larissa Behrendt
Mick Dodson
Marcia Langton
Lisa Palmer ... [et al.]
Turtle Sang Himself Together: Themes of Cultural Survival in the Oral Traditions of the Florida Panhandle Creek Indians
Theses
Author/Creator
Lawrence Simmers Ellis
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2003.
Two Related Indigenous Writing Systems: Canada's Syllabic and China's A-hmao Scripts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Alison Lewis
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2003, pp. 277-304
Description
Story of two writing systems: syllabics developed around 1840 by James Evans and a system developed for the A-hmao, in south-western China, around 1904.
United They Stood, Divided They Didn't Fall: Culture and Politics in Mi'kmaq Nova Scotia, 1969 - 1988
Alternate Title
United They Stood, Divided They Didn't Fall: Culture and Politics in Micmac Nova Scotia, 1969 - 1988
Theses
Author/Creator
Michelle Coffin
Description
Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2003.
The Use of Film as a Vehicle for Traditional Storytelling Forms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Geddes
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 65-70
Description
Discusses how storytelling can help with cultural and personal identity and other benefits.
Vaa Tseerii'in, Funny Gwich'in Stories and Games
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Frank
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 56-58
Description
Discusses how to uncover and work with traditional knowledge.
Variation in Instructional Discourse Features: Cultural or Linguistic? Evidence from Inuit and Non-Inuit Teachers of Nunavik
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Eriks-Brophy
Martha Crago
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 396-419
Description
Argues that teachers' cultural values about communication and interaction affect their assessment of students' academic and communicative competence.
Waasamodibaajibiigemaazoying: Bright Lines of Story in Song
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Noodin
Stacie Sheldon
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 88-99
Description
Comments on the website Ojibwe.net and what it is doing towards the preservation of Anishinaabemowin.
Wabaseemoong Community Case Study: Appropriate Education In A First Nations Reserve School
Theses
Author/Creator
Brian K. Smith
Description
Educational Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Mount Saint Vincent University, 1995.
Warriors of Justice and Healing
Articles » General
Author/Creator
James Youngblood Henderson
Justice as Healing, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Use of traditional words and stories as metaphors.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
We Still Tell Stories: An Examination of Cherokee Oral Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Leslie Deon Hannah
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2003.
Welcoming Churches Embrace Old and New
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leanne Larmondin
Anglican Journal, vol. 129, no. 2, February 2003, p. 4
Description
Presents a general discussion of children's behaviour in church and mentions the release of a hymnal in the Kwak'wala language.
When Size Doesn't Count: A Comparative Account of Language Endangerment in Australia and Pakistan
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Malik Adnan Hussain Bhatti
Jakelin Troy
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 132-144
Description
Authors examine government policies and a range of community, education, business, health, and media initiatives that variously support or hinder efforts to maintain or revive the use of Indigenous languages. Compares the effects of language devaluation in two different colonized nations.
Wife, Mother, Provider, Defender, God: Women in Lakota Winter Counts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Risch
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2003, pp. 1-30
Description
An historical perspective on gender in relation to waniyetu wowakapi (winter counts) or hekta yawap. reveals evidence of women's roles; author suggests further historical research.
Windspeaker Special Section: Education
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 13, no. 1, May 1995, p. S1
Description
Discusses aspects of education and learning in different disciplines, programs and locations in Canada and Greenland, with an emphasis on cultural content.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.
A Winter's Research and Invention: Reverend James Evan's Exploration of Indigenous Language and the Development of Syllabics, 1838-1839
Theses
Author/Creator
Paul Michael Hengstler
Description
History (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2003.
Word-order and the Interpretation of Nominals in Plains Cree
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeff Mühlbauer
Description
Outline for Algonquian linguistics research program in position of nouns and adjectives.
Wyandot Nation of Kansas
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
The Wyandot Nation of Kansas
Description
Website includes links to history, sacred sites, treaties, lifestyle, language and literature, ancestors, missions, and genealogy.
Wylie Tales: An Interview with James Welch
Articles » General
Author/Creator
William Bevis
James Welch
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Interview with author about his thoughts on Aboriginal life, films and literature. Discusses Welch's books Fools Crow and Killing Custer.
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